The Schengen-Agreement and Maastricht Treaty create open barriers for the members of the European Union (EU) in terms of the freedom of movement of people. Especially the latter, the freedom of movement, is a very important point, because many immigrants use it to travel to a country or live there at times, however, sometimes without having an employment. They only live there because the state (e. g. Germany) offers benefits.

Of course you can't say that all of the immigrants use that way to live here, much of them come to another country because of a war in their own country for example and look directly for a job in one of the EU countries.To avoid those „bad“ - immigrants, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, is developing a new immigration policy:

The most important point of his new policy is the reduction of immigration. It's directed at immigrants who come without money to the United Kingdom. Cameron says that it's important that people got the right to travel and to work but those immigrants coming to the UK unwilling to work should not be payed social benefits. To prevent immigrants from coming, he wants to restrict the right of social benefits. In such a case he doesn't „wanna make excuses“, said Cameron.

A positive aspect of Cameron's policy is that the state can save much money for other purposes, because the country needn't pay money for immigrants who don't want to work and just want to get money from the state. This can also be a motivation for immigrants because they understand that they can only live in a state if they can find work there. Consequently, this also means that the country can save money and spend it on other purposes like social housing or something like that.

A negative point of the policy is that immigrants can't come to a state anymore. That means, for example, if such people trying to escape because of war in his country, he can't flee to a state of the European Union as easily as it is now. The reason is that they can't work immediately and have to live from a state, but because of Cameron's policy, they aren't entitled any more.

In my opinion is the idea Cameron's immigration policy isn't bad because you can't come to a country only to live without working. But I think that you had to discriminate between immigrants and refugees. If they want to work, but they can't, it's something different as if there is someone who can work but doesn't want to.

L. A.